Month: September 2011

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Already being indexed?

So apparently it doesn’t take long for someone (Google?) to find you. I don’t believe I’m linked from anywhere yet, but I did ask an online site to create a sitemap.xml for me.  With timestamps only minutes before the timestamp on my sitemap.xml file this is in my error.log:

[Fri Sep 16 13:37:39 2011] [error] [client 66.249.67.135] File does not exist: /var/www/robots.txt
[Fri Sep 16 13:49:31 2011] [error] [client 66.147.244.79] File does not exist: /var/www/robots.txt

A quick googling of those IPs seems to show that the first one is owned by googlebot.com, and the second one is an anonymous looking box on bluehost.com. Friend or foe?

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Hello world!

This is indeed my first post! It has been fun getting this up and running on a Lucid build of Ubuntu.

These are some of the things I discovered so far:

  • ufw out-of-the-box prevents apt-get from working
  • installing the wordpress package via apt-get resolves some dependencies: it downloads the dependencies for mysql-client but does not include any mysql-server
  • wordpress on Ubuntu works very easily once you find the special configure for Debian files inside /usr/share/docs/wordpress
  • of particular use is /usr/share/docs/worpress/examples/setup-mysql which doesn’t quite work as described, but boy did it make everything work
  • I still haven’t figured out the timezone for this yet
  • Bitvise Tunnelier is awesome for ssh sessions under Windows7 64-bit

So far things have worked rather well! On to the next bits….